Gail Harvey

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

New Poetry

A collection of poems about children features works by Blake, Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others

Poems of Childhood

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Presents four illustrated poems of Edward Lear: "Lines to a Young Lady," "The Jumblies," "The Owl and the Pussycat," and "The Pobble Who Has No Toes."

The Owl and the Pussycat

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Michigan

Prayers and Poems for Children

This delightful collection of poems and prayers offers children and their parents a personal way to draw closer to God and one another. Selections include tuneless verses by Robert Browning and -Ralph Waldo Emerson and modern reflections from Madeleine L'Engle and Nikki Grimes. The innocent prayers of children and the endearing works of new poets are also included. The carefully chosen words help children express their thanks joys, and concerns as the enchanting artwork shows that you can pray about what is in your heart and on your mind -- anytime at all.

⭐ Amazing Graces

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Joyce Rupp

Mary Southard

Missouri

An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness

The bestselling author of May I Have This Dance? joins with the artist of the popular Earth Calendar in an inspiring book affirming life's goodness.

The Cosmic Dance

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Twenty-three light poems with bouncing rhythms.

Blackberry Ink

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Rhode Island

10 at Night

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Myrna R. Grant

Name and address written on inside page - church stamp on inside page 

Texas

Poems for a  Good & Happy Life

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#paperback #poems #poetry #dover #classic #american #america #modernism #modern #americanstudies 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly impressed with the accessibility of his language, and Williams's widely quoted dictum, "No ideas but in things," influenced a generation of American poets.
This fine selection offers readers the opportunity to study and enjoy the richness and variety of Williams's early work. More than 70 poems, published between 1917 and 1921, include "Peace on Earth," "Tract," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "Keller Gegen Dom," "Willow Poem," "Queen-Anne's-Lace," "Portrait of a Lady," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and many others.

Early Poems

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Ralph Fletcher

Poems about Family

A collection of poems that describe the experiences and relationships in a close-knit family.

Relatively Speaking

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Poetry for Holidays

Carl. Sandburg

A painter’s deeply felt images match a poet’s timeless observations about the heart of America in this profound evocation of the texture of life in the Midwest. A sophisticated and beautiful book for all ages, Grassroots is Wendell Minor’s tribute to Carl Sandburg’s work and to the Midwest upbringing they both share.


Grassroots

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Eric Kincaid

A Children's Book of Verse

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Alvin Schwartz

Ex library copy, with expected markings and stamps, but it’s still in very good condition. 

Folk Poetry from Everyone

From autograph rhymes to street rhymes, from riddles to jump-rope chants, here is a wonderful collection of more than 250 folk poems to share with friends & family. Understand, rubberband?

And the Green Grass Grew All Around

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#anightwithoutarmor #fiction #hardcover #poems #jewel #poetry #nonfiction 

Louisiana

Poems

I've learned that not allpoetry lends itself to music -- some thoughts needto be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part[s] of our selves that are so essential to peace, to openheartedness, to unfolding the vision and the spiritual realm of our lives, to exposing our souls. - Jewel, From the Preface Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic and mundane, loneliness and friendship. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

A Night Without Armor #10

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Minnesota

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Debbie Trafton O'Neal

Action Prayers, Songs and Blessings for Every Day

A collection of prayers old and new, this family activity book contains poems finger plays, songs and paraphrased Bible verses. Suited for the different parts of children's days, prayers address items when children are sick, frightened, happy or sad. It also contains prayers about the weather, seasons, Bible, school days, birthdays and other special occasions.

Thank You for This Day

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#paperback #poetry #poems #kids #children #livingbook #morningtime 

Sky Magic-Pb

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New York

A Bedside Poker Companion

More than 50 million Americans play poker. But poker is much more than a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated by a multitude of colorful characters -- professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers.

From the rich field of all the writers who have ever loved the game, editor John Stravinsky has gathered thirty-nine best-of-breed short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poems: Mark Twain, John Updike, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, and Billy Collins are among the winning hand of renowned writers in this collection who have mined their personal experiences at the poker table.

Entertaining, enlightening, and essential, Read 'Em and Weep is a stacked deck of pure poker-reading pleasure.

Read 'Em and Weep

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Helen Steiner Rice

Ohio

This volume, incorporates some of the best of Helen Steiner Rice's poetry along with a unique and insightful autobiographical sketch from the author.

Heart Gifts

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New Jersey

Lonesome Cities

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Caroline Kaufman

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. This hardcover collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. it’s okay if some things are always out of reach. if you could carry all the stars in the palm of your hand, they wouldn’t be half as breathtaking

Light Filters in: Poems

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II – railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" – are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present – a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier – are fraught with this same anxiety.

But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.



Poetry

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals: Again the growl Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble Of iron on iron, then a long centrifual Haulage of speed through every dragging socket. (from 'District and Circle')

District and Circle

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#garden #gardening #poems  #poetry #hardcover 

Tennessee

A Joyful Bouquet

Springtime is garden planting time. This little book contains light-hearted poems about the earth and the plants. It also includes watercolour illustrations.

Poems for Gardeners

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Nice, clean copy. See pics 📸

 #poetry #shakespeare #fiction #sonnets #lovepoems #classic #poems #hardcover

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Among the few facts known about William Shakespeare's life: he was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Tradition assigns his birth to April 23; he died fifty-two years later on the same day. At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior. Their daughter Susanna was born six months later, followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. The next seven years of his life are unaccounted for, but by 1592 he was well known in the London theatre world. From 1589 to 1613 he wrote the thirty-six plays (and cowrote two others) on which his fame chiefly rests, though his place in the top rank of English writers would have been secured just by his excellence as a poet. He bought one of the finest houses in Stratford in 1597 and lived there from 1610. He is buried outside Holy Trinity Church.

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Gail Harvey; Random House Value Publishing Staff

Poems of Childhood

John W. Ingram (Editor); Charles Reasoner (Illustrator)

The Owl and the Pussycat

June Cotner; Jan Palmer (Illustrator)

⭐ Amazing Graces

Joyce Rupp; Mary Southard

The Cosmic Dance

Eve Merriam; Hans Wilhelm (Illustrator)

Blackberry Ink

Laurie Sheck